Loose Change Collected by TSA at Airports Last Year Amounts to Impressive Sum

The Transportation Security Administration has been taking a lot of heat lately from travelers who feel like they’re giving a bit too much of their time waiting in interminable lines at TSA checkpoints. In an inadvertent form of crowdfunding, the TSA collected $765,759.15 in fiscal year 2015 in unclaimed money left behind at airport security checkpoints, according to an agency report. That’s enough to buy a house in New York City, where the median home price is $616,100, according to real estate website Zillow, and still have a lot of change left over to scatter in coin baskets at TSA checkpoints.